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Actitis burtrami Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 43, pl. 196; xiii, 1847, 238.— 
ScHurceE., Rev. Crit., 1844, p. xcii. 
Alctitis] bartrami Kavanaune and Brastus, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xxiii, 212. 
Actiturus bartrami Licutenstzin, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92. 
Totanus variegatus Viettor, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 397 (South 
America; Antilles); Gal. Ois., ii, 1834, 107, pl. 239. 
Totanus malanopyotus VIEILLOT, Nowy, Dict. qd’ Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 401 (central 
United States; Louisiana). 
Bartramia Tasteainde Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 553 (new name for Tringa bartra- 
mia Wilson).—ALuLEN, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 78. 
Totanus campestris VievtiotT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 400 (Paraguay, 
based on Chorlito ribetos blancos acanaledos Azara, Apunt., p. lii, 312) —Harr- 
LAUB, Syst. Index Azara’s Apunt., 1847, 25. 
T[otanus] campestris ViEILLoT, Tabl. Enc. Méth., iii, 1823, 1098. 
Pavoncella pugnax (not Tringa pugnaz Linneus) Macoun, Cat. Canad. Birds, 1900, 
177, part (see Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 450). 
Genus NUMENIUS Brisson. 
Numenius Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 311. (Type, by tautonymy, [Numenius] 
numenius Brisson=Scolopaz arquata Linneus.) 
Neomenius 4 (emendation) Birtpere, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pars 2, 1828, tab. 
A and p. 159. 
Cracticornis Gray, List Gen. and Subgen. Birds, 1841, 88. (Type, Scolopax 
arquata Linnzeus.) 
Very large Scolopacide (wing more than 250 (251-308) mm.) with 
he long, slender, and distinctly arched or decurved bil longer than 
arsus and middle toe, more than half as long as wing; tarsus more 
han twice as long as middle toe without claw, and tail shorter than 
arsus and middle toe. 
Bill very long, slender, strongly and regularly decurved from, or 
osterior to, middle portion, the exposed culmen longer than tarsus 
nd middle toe, longer than tail, more than half as long as wing, 
arrower than deep (except terminally), the tip (of both maxilla and 
aandible) slightly expanded; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally linear, 
ervious; nasal groove distinct for basal half, or less, only, quite 
bsolete terminally; loral and malar antiz on same vertical line, the 
1ental antia slightly posterior to anterior end of nostril, the frontal 
ntia forming a more or Jess concave (sometimes nearly straight) line 
cross base of culmen; wing ample, pointed, the outermost primary 
mgest and exceeding distal secondaries by nearly to quite half the 
mgth of wing; tertials elongated, but tips of the longest falling con- 
derably short of tips of longest primaries; tail about two-fifths as 
mg as wing or slightly less, slightly but distinctly rounded; rectrices. 
2; tarsus a little more than one-fourth as long as wing, more than 
vice as long as middle toe without claw, scutellate anteriorly, covered 
ith hexagonal scales posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as long 
@ Neounvia, nova luna, ab formam rostri derivatum videtur. (Billherg.) 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt S26 : 
